The English and Scottish Popular Ballads/Part 4

by Francis James Child

The
English and Scottish
Popular Ballads

Edited by
Francis James Child

Part IV

Boston
Houghton, Mifflin and Company
New York: 11 East Seventeenth Street
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
London: Henry Stevens & Son, 115 St. Martin's Lane, Charing Cross

One Thousand Copies Printed.

No. 233

Copyright, 1886, by F. J. Child.

The Riverside Press, Cambridge:
Printed by H. O. Houghton and Company.

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Upon concluding this Fourth Part, I have to express warm thanks to Mr James Barclay Murdoch for a punctilious recollation of Motherwell's manuscript, and to Mr Malcolm Colquhoun Thomson for again granting the use of the volume. Miss Mary Fraser Tytler, to remove a doubt about a few readings, has generously taken the trouble to make a facsimile copy of Alexander Fraser Tytler's Brown manuscript. Mr Macmath, whose accuracy is not surpassed by photographic reproduction, has done me favors of a like kind, and of many kinds. Rev. Professor Skeat, with all his engagements, has been prompt to render his peculiarly valuable help at the libraries of Cambridge; and Mr F. H. Stoddard, late of Oxford, now of the University of California, has allowed me to call upon him freely for copies and collations at the Bodleian Library. The notes which Dr Reinhld Köhler, Professor Felix Liebrecht, Professor C. R. Lanman, and Mr George Lyman Kittredge have contributed, in the way of Additions and Corrections, will speak for themselves. Miss Isabel Florence Hapgood, translator of the Epic Songs of Russia, has given me much assistance in Slavic popular poetry, and Lieutenant-Colonel W. F. Prideaux, of Calcutta, Mr Frank Kidson, of Leeds, and Mr P. Z. Round, of London, have made obliging communications as to English ballads.

F. J. C.

November, 1886.

Contents

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		Page
83.	Child Maurice	263
84.	Bonny Barbara Allan	276
85.	Lady Alice	279
86.	Young Benjie	281
87.	Prince Robert	284
88.	Young Johnstone	288
89.	Fause Foodrage	296
90.	Jellon Grame	302
91.	Fair Mary of Wallington	309
92.	Bonny Bee Hom	317
93.	Lamkin	320
94.	Young Waters	342
95.	The Maid Freed from the Gallows	346
96.	The Gay Goshawk	355
97.	Brown Robin	368
98.	Brown Adam	373
99.	Johnie Scot	377
100.	Willie o Winsbury	387
101.	Willie o Douglas Dale	406
102.	Willie and Earl Richard's Daughter	412
103.	Rose the Red and White Lily	415
104.	Prince Heathen	424
105.	The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington	426
106.	The Famous Flower of Serving-Men	428
107.	Will Steward and John	432
108.	Christopher White	439
109.	Tom Potts	441
110.	The Knight and Sheperd's Daugher	457
111.	Crow and Pie	478
112.	The Baffled Knight	479
113.	The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry	494
	Additions and Corrections	495